Samuel West (Actor) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News Samuel West Male Born Jun 19, 1966 Samuel Alexander Joseph West, also known as Sam West, is an English actor and director. He is perhaps best known for his role in the film Howards End and his work on stage (including the award-winning play ENRON). related links 'fleming' Review: A Look At The Spy Who Created Bond, James Bond Huffington Post - Jan 28, 2014 ' Would it surprise you to learn that the man who created Bond -- James Bond -- liked fast cars, fine living, custom-made cigarettes and cocktails made in a very particular way? \nProbably not, but unless you\'ve read a biography of Bond\'s creator, portions of the well-acted four-part miniseries \"Fleming\" (10 p.m. ET Wednesday, BBC America) may come as a surprise. Dominic Cooper infuses the role of Ian Fleming with the right mixture of insouciance and world-weariness, and half the fu... Girls Have A Tiring Day Of Ups And Downs!

Kent Online - Apr 06, 2012 'Three teenagers are spending today climbing up and down Doverâs Grand Shaft 70 times. Twins Kelly and Tess Gartshore and Sam West are raising money for the Western Heights Preservation Society.' The Brass Neck Of Julian Assange The Spectator - UK - Feb 21, 2012 ' On 1 March, the Old Vic theatre in London is hosting the premiÃ¨re of Europeâs Last Dictator â a film documenting torture and state-sponsored murder and kidnap in Aleksandr Lukashenkoâs Belarus. I donât know if it looks at the brilliantly subversive Belarus Free Theatre, which has been at the forefront of the dissident movement, but I have been heartened to see British actors â Ian McKellen, Jude Law, Sienna Miller, <mark>Samuel West</mark> â responding to appeals for solidarity from their f...

Musical Feast In Store Isle Of Wight County Press Google News - Aug 26, 2011 'The four recitals in the spring of 2012 are equally enticing, with the actor <mark>Samuel West</mark> narrating Richard Strauss&#39;s dramatic setting of Tennyson&#39;s Enoch Arden on January 14 and then, at monthly intervals, the virtuoso accordionist Ksenija Sidorova,' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Samuel West. CHILDHOOD 1966 Birth Born on June 19, 1966.

TWENTIES 1989 23 Years Old West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre, playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles, of which critic John Thaxter wrote: "He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty." 1993 27 Years Old Since then, West has appeared frequently on stage; he played Valentine in the first ever production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the National Theatre in 1993 and later spent two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing the title roles in Richard II and Hamlet, both directed by Steven Pimlott. THIRTIES 2002 36 Years Old In 2002, West made his stage directorial debut with The Lady's Not for Burning at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.

2005 39 Years Old He succeeded Michael Grandage as artistic director of Sheffield Theatres from 2005-2007. … Read More During his time as artistic director West revived the controversial The Romans in Britain and also directed As You Like It as part of the RSC's Complete Works Festival. Read Less FORTIES Show Less West left Sheffield when the theatre closed for refurbishment in 2007 and made his West End directorial debut with the first major revival of Dealer's Choice following its transferral to the Trafalgar Studios. He also continued his acting career: in 2007 he appeared alongside Toby Stephens and Dervla Kirwan in Betrayal at the Donmar Warehouse, in November 2008 he played Harry in the Donmar revival of T. S. Eliot's Family Reunion and in 2009 he starred as Jeffrey Skilling in Enron by Lucy Prebble. In 2007 West moved in with playwright Laura Wade, but in 2011 the couple temporarily split up.

… As a reciter West has worked with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.. Works include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Soldier's Tale, Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin, Beethoven's Egmont, Schoenburg's Ode To Napoleon, Strauss' Enoch Arden, Saint-SaÃ«nsâ Carnival of the Animals, Bernstein's Kaddish, Walton's FaÃ§ade and Henry V, Night Mail and The Way to the Sea by Britten and Auden, the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodallâs Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal Albert Hall and the UK premiere of Jonathan Harvey's final piece Weltethos at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Read Less In 2007 West made his New York recital debut in the first performance of Little Red Violin by Anne Dudley and Steven Isserlis.

… Read More In November 2010, West performed a new English translation of Grieg's complete incidental music to Ibsenâs play Peer Gynt with the Southampton Philharmonic Choir at Southampton Guildhall. He has performed at the Proms six times, including the suite version of Henry V at the 2002 Last Night of the Proms.<br /><br /> He has also appeared with the Nash Ensemble, the Raphael Ensemble, The Hebrides Ensemble, Ensemble 360 and the Lindsay, Dante and Endellion Quartets at the Wigmore Hall, London. Recordings include Prokofief's Eugene Onegin with Sinfonia 21 and Edward Downes, Salad Days and Walton's Henry V with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin.<br /><br /> As a choral singer, West has participated in three Choir of London tours to Palestine: in May 2006, when he also gave poetry readings as part of the concert programme; in April 2007 when he directed The Magic Flute. and in September 2013 (see below).

Read Less 2008 42 Years Old His 2008 production of Waste at the Almeida Theatre was chosen by The Times as one of its "Productions of the Decade". … Read More From November 2012 to January 2013 he appeared as Astrov in a production of Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville Theatre. Read Less 2010 44 Years Old … In 1991, West played the lower-middle-class clerk Leonard Bast in the Merchant Ivory film adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel Howards End (released 1992) opposite Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins. For this role, he was nominated for best supporting actor at the 1993 BAFTA Film Awards. Two years later he again appeared with Thompson in the film Carrington. His film career has continued with roles in a number of well known films, such as Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Notting Hill, Iris and Van Helsing.

In 2004, he appeared in the year's highest rated mini-series on German television, Die Nibelungen, which was released in the United States in 2006 as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. In 2012 he played King George VI in Hyde Park on Hudson. <br /><br />He is a familiar face on television appearing in many long-running series: Midsomer Murders, Waking the Dead and Poirot as well as one-off dramas. He played Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies, a BBC production about the four British spies, starring alongside Toby Stephens (Philby), Tom Hollander (Burgess) and Rupert Penry-Jones (Maclean). In 2006 he took the lead role in a BBC production of Random Quest adapted from the short story by John Wyndham and the next year played Edward Heath in Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley, also for the BBC. Read Less In 2010 he played Peter Scabius in the televised adaptation of William Boyd's novel Any Human Heart, while in 2011 he starred as Zak Gist in the ITV series Eternal Law.

… Read More In addition, he appeared in the BBC Series "As Time Goes By" (1994) episode titled "We'll Always Have Paris" playing the character named Terry. Read Less Show Less … West is regularly heard on radio as a reader or reciter and has performed in many radio dramas, including Otherkin by Laura Wade, Present Laughter by NoÃ«l Coward, Len Deighton's Bomber, Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Michael Frayn's Here and The Homecoming as Lenny to Harold Pinter's Max. Read Less In 2011 he made his radio directing debut with a production of Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton on BBC Radio 3. … Read More West has appeared alongside his actor parents on several occasions; with his mother Prunella Scales in Howards End and Stiff Upper Lips, and with his father Timothy West on stage in A Number, Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2. In two films (Iris in 2001 and the 1996 television film Over Here), Sam and his father have played the same character at different ages.

In Edward the Seventh, he and his brother Joseph played young sons of the title character, who was played by their father. In 2002 all three family members performed in Stravinsky's The Soldiers Tale at the St Magnus Festival on Orkney and in 2006 they gave a rehearsed reading of the Harold Pinter play Family Voices as part of the Sheffield Theatres Pinter season.<br /><br /> West became the patron of Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus in February 2008, having been the narrator for a concert of theirs in February 2002. He is also a patron of London children's charity Scene & Heard, Eastside Educational Trust and Mousetrap Theatre projects. Read Less … While at university, West was a member of the Socialist Workers Party and later briefly the Socialist Alliance. West has been a left-wing activist for many years; he was a critic of Tony Blair's New Labour government. Read Less On 26 March 2011 he spoke at the TUC March for the Alternative.

… Read More Samuel West has written essays on Richard II for the Cambridge University Press series Players of Shakespeare, on Hamlet for Michael Dobson's CUP study Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today and on Shakespeare and Love and Voice and Radio for BBC Radio 3.<br /><br /> He has also published articles on Harold Pinter, on Caryl Churchill and on the Shipping Forecast. He frequently writes and speaks in public about arts funding. Read Less Show Less In 2013 he was one of the judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry. In 2013 West was cast in a minor role in The Riot Club, the film version of Wadeâs hit play, Posh and in 2014 the couple had a daughter.

… Read More He also narrated five BBC documentary series for producer Laurence Rees: <br /><br /> In addition, he narrated the Yorkshire Television documentary "The SS in Britain" for director Julian Hendy in 1999.<br /><br /> West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II and Macbeth (directed by Steven Berkoff), the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson (The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland (The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March), five books by Sebastian Faulks (Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life), four by Michael Ridpath (Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker), two by George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia), two by Mary Wesley (An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture), two by Robert Goddard (Closed

 Circle and In Pale Battalions) and several compilations of poetry (Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad).

Also Faust, Bomber, Doctor Who: The Vengeance of Morbius, Empire of the Sun, Brighton Rock, Fair Stood the Wind for France, Fluke, Great Speeches in History, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Lady Windermere's Fan, Peter Pan, The Alchemist, The Day of the Triffids, The Hairy Hands, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, The Queen's Man, The Solitaire Mystery, The Swimming Pool Library, The Two Destinies, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Way I Found Her, The Way to Dusty Death, The Woodlanders, Under the Net, Wuthering Heights and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales for Young and Old. Read Less In 2013, the centenary year of Benjamin Britten, West narrated the Britten/Auden film score Night Mail with the Nash Ensemble at the Wigmore Hall and later added Coal Face, Godâs Chillun, The Peace of Britain, The Way to the Sea and The Kingâs Stamp with the Aurora Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth and Fairfield Halls.

… Read More In June he played God in Brittenâs Noyeâs Fludde in Harrogate. In July he appeared in a Proms Plus broadcast discussing Brittenâs setting of poetry. In September he toured Palestine with the Choir of London as staff director of a new opera based on Brittenâs Hymn to St Cecilia and sang in Brittenâs St Nicolas. In October, he narrated the concert world premiere of Britten in America for the HallÃ© orchestra, which was released on CD together with Westâs recordings of speeches to Brittenâs incidental music for Auden and Isherwoodâs play The Ascent of F6 (the disc, Britten to America, was later nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium). He also toured a program of Britten cabaret songs and Auden poems across the UK with Ruthie Culver and the UtterJazz Quartet. Read Less In June 2013 he appeared in the video for Handyman Blues by Billy Bragg, directed by Johnny Vegas.

… Read More As actor <br /><br /> As reader <br /><br /> Samuel West has received nine AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (1996), Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie (1997), Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks (1999), The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain (2000), The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst (2007), Faust by Goethe (2011), A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman (2011), A Possible Life by Sebastian Faulks (2012) and Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales for Young and Old (2013) <br /><br /> As director Read Less 2014 48 Years Old In December 2014, he appeared on two programmes for Christmas University Challenge, as part of a team of alumni from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

… Read More West is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts and was a member of the council of the British Actors' Union Equity from 1996â2000 and 2008â2014. He is a keen birdwatcher. Read Less Learn and talk about Samuel West, 20th-century English male actors, 21st-century English male actors, Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Critics' Circle Theatre Award winners 11 External links Early life and education[ edit ] Career[ edit ] West works as an actor in a variety of dramatic media including theatre, film, television and radio. [8] He has made a career as a director on stage and radio. [1] He has narrated many television documentaries, including the acclaimed series The Nazis: A Warning from History . He often appears as reciter with orchestras (see below) and performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002.

[9] Stage[ edit ] West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre , playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles , [10] of which critic John Thaxter wrote: "He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty." [11] Since then, West has appeared frequently on stage; he played Valentine in the first ever production of Tom Stoppard 's Arcadia at the National Theatre in 1993 [12] and later spent two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing the title roles in Richard II and Hamlet , both directed by Steven Pimlott . [13] [14] Film[ edit ] In 1991, West played the lower-middle-class clerk Leonard Bast in the Merchant Ivory film adaptation of E. M. Forster 's novel Howards End (released 1992) opposite Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins .

For this role, he was nominated for best supporting actor at the 1993 BAFTA Film Awards. [28] Two years later he again appeared with Thompson in the film Carrington . His film career has continued with roles in a number of well known films, such as Franco Zeffirelli 's Jane Eyre , Notting Hill , Iris and Van Helsing . In 2004, he appeared in the year's highest rated mini-series on German television, Die Nibelungen, which was released in the United States in 2006 as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King . In 2012 he played King George VI in Hyde Park on Hudson . Television[ edit ] He is a familiar face on television appearing in many long-running series: Midsomer Murders , Waking the Dead and Poirot as well as one-off dramas. He played Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies , a BBC production about the four British spies, starring alongside Toby Stephens ( Philby ), Tom Hollander ( Burgess ) and Rupert Penry-Jones ( Maclean ).

In 2006 he took the lead role in a BBC production of Random Quest adapted from the short story by John Wyndham and the next year played Edward Heath in Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley , also for the BBC. In 2010 he played Peter Scabius in the televised adaptation of William Boyd 's novel Any Human Heart , while in 2011 he starred as Zak Gist in the ITV series Eternal Law . In addition, he appeared in the BBC Series "As Time Goes By" (1994) episode titled "We'll Always Have Paris" playing the character named Terry. He plays Frank Edwards in the ITV drama Mr Selfridge , and Sir Walter Pole in the 2015 BBC adaptation of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell . Personal life[ edit ] Samuel West wearing a Peace Pledge Union poppy at the No Glory protest, London, 4th August 2014 West has appeared alongside his actor parents on several occasions; with his mother Prunella Scales in Howards End and Stiff Upper Lips , and with his father Timothy West on stage in A Number , Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 .

In two films ( Iris in 2001 and the 1996 television film Over Here ), Sam and his father have played the same character at different ages. In Edward the Seventh , he and his brother Joseph played young sons of the title character, who was played by their father. [32] In 2002 all three family members performed in Stravinsky 's The Soldiers Tale at the St Magnus Festival on Orkney [33] and in 2006 they gave a rehearsed reading of the Harold Pinter play Family Voices as part of the Sheffield Theatres Pinter season. [34] West became the patron of Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus in February 2008, having been the narrator for a concert of theirs in February 2002. [35] He is also a patron of London children's charity Scene & Heard , [36] Eastside Educational Trust and Mousetrap Theatre projects. While at university, West was a member of the Socialist Workers Party and later briefly the Socialist Alliance . [2] West has been a left-wing activist for many years; he was a critic of Tony Blair 's New Labour government.

[37] On 26 March 2011, he spoke at the TUC March for the Alternative . [38] Samuel West has written essays on Richard II for the Cambridge University Press series Players of Shakespeare, [39] on Hamlet for Michael Dobson's CUP study Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today [40] and on Shakespeare and Love [41] and Voice and Radio [42] for BBC Radio 3 . He has also published articles on Harold Pinter , [43] [44] on Caryl Churchill [45] and on the Shipping Forecast . [46] He frequently writes and speaks in public about arts funding. [47] In 2013, he was one of the judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry . In December 2014, he appeared on two programmes for Christmas University Challenge , [48] as part of a team of alumni from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford .

West is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company , [49] Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts and was a member of the council of the British Actors' Union Equity from 1996–2000 and 2008–2014. [50] He is a keen birdwatcher . [51] In 2007, West moved in with playwright Laura Wade , [1] but in 2011 the couple temporarily split up. [4] [52] In 2013, West was cast in a minor role in The Riot Club , the film version of Wade’s successful play, Posh and in 2014 the couple had a daughter.

[53] Close the Coalhouse Door (2012), BBC Radio 4 Audiobooks, reciting and work with musicians[ edit ] West has recorded over fifty audiobooks , among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well , Coriolanus , Henry V , The Merchant of Venice , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Much Ado About Nothing , Richard II and Macbeth (directed by Steven Berkoff ), the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer , Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone , At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray , Birdsong , The Girl at the Lion d'Or , Human Traces and A Possible Life), four by Michael Ridpath (Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley (An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture), two by Robert Goddard (Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions) and several compilations of poetry (Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems

 of John Keats , Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley , Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

Also Faust , Bomber , Doctor Who : The Vengeance of Morbius, Empire of the Sun , Brighton Rock , Fair Stood the Wind for France , Fluke , Great Speeches in History, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Lady Windermere's Fan , Peter Pan , The Alchemist , The Day of the Triffids , The Hairy Hands, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous , The Queen's Man , The Solitaire Mystery , The Swimming Pool Library , The Two Destinies, The Velveteen Rabbit , The Way I Found Her, The Way to Dusty Death, The Woodlanders , Under the Net , Wuthering Heights and Philip Pullman 's Grimm Tales for Young and Old. In June 2012, West recorded an English narration of The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson for an interactive audiobook developed by Spinfy and published by Sort of Books. In May 2015, West's reading of Brighton Rock was chosen as one of 'The 20 best audiobooks of all time' by Carole Mansur of the Daily Telegraph .

[56] As a reciter West has worked with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra , Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.. Works include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Soldier's Tale , Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin, Beethoven's Egmont , Schoenburg's Ode To Napoleon, Strauss' Enoch Arden , Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals , Bernstein's Kaddish , Walton's Façade and Henry V, Night Mail and The Way to the Sea by Britten and Auden, the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodall ’s Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal Albert Hall and the UK premiere of Jonathan Harvey 's final piece Weltethos at the Symphony Hall, Birmingham. [57] In 2007 West made his New York recital debut in the first performance of Little Red Violin by Anne Dudley and Steven Isserlis .

In November 2010, West performed a new English translation of Grieg's complete incidental music to Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt with the Southampton Philharmonic Choir at Southampton Guildhall. [58] He has performed at the Proms six times, [59] including the suite version of Henry V at the 2002 Last Night of the Proms . He has also appeared with the Nash Ensemble , the Raphael Ensemble , The Hebrides Ensemble, Ensemble 360 and the Lindsay , Dante and Endellion Quartets at the Wigmore Hall , London. Recordings include Prokofief's Eugene Onegin with Sinfonia 21 and Edward Downes, [60] Salad Days and Walton's Henry V with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin . [61] As a choral singer, West has participated in three Choir of London tours to Palestine : in May 2006, when he also gave poetry readings as part of the concert programme; in April 2007 when he directed The Magic Flute . [62] and in September 2013 (see below).

In 2013, the centenary year of Benjamin Britten , West narrated the Britten/ Auden film score Night Mail with the Nash Ensemble at the Wigmore Hall and later added Coal Face, God’s Chillun, The Peace of Britain, The Way to the Sea and The King's Stamp with the Aurora Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth and Fairfield Halls. [63] In June he played God in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde in Harrogate. [64] In July he appeared in a Proms Plus broadcast discussing Britten’s setting of poetry. In September he toured Palestine with the Choir of London as staff director of a new opera based on Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia and sang in Britten’s St Nicolas . [65] In October, he narrated the concert world premiere of Britten in America for the Hallé orchestra, which was released on CD [66] together with West’s recordings of speeches to Britten’s incidental music for Auden and Isherwood ’s play The Ascent of F6 (the disc, Britten to America, was later nominated for a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Classical Compendium).

[67] He also toured a program of Britten cabaret songs and Auden poems across the UK with Ruthie Culver and the UtterJazz Quartet. [68] In June 2013 he appeared in the video for Handyman Blues by Billy Bragg , directed by Johnny Vegas . [69] Awards and nominations[ edit ] Original courtesy of Wikipedia: — Please support Wikipedia. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia . A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. We're sorry, but there's no news about "Samuel West" right now. Limit to books that you can completely read online Include partial books (book previews) Oops, we seem to be having trouble contacting Twitter Support Wikipedia A portion of the proceeds from advertising on Digplanet goes to supporting Wikipedia. Please add your support for Wikipedia! Searchlight Group Digplanet also receives support from Searchlight Group. Visit Searchlight Copyright © 2009-2016 Digparty. All rights reserved.

Howards End (film) - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki More info on Howards End (film) Wikis Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics Top rankings for Howards End (film) 10th From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Howards End Movie poster with Samuel West and Helena Bonham Carter Directed by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (based on the novel by E. M. Forster ) Starring Percy Grainger (opening and end title) Cinematography Budget $8 million (estimated) Howards End is a 1992 film adaptation of E. M. Forster 's 1910 novel Howards End , a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England . The film was produced by Merchant Ivory Productions , their third adaptation of a Forster novel (following A Room with a View in 1986 and Maurice in 1987). The screenplay was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant .

Contents 9 External links Synopsis The story takes place in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is about three families who represent three social classes: the Wilcoxes, who are rich Victorian capitalists and who represent the class that is displacing the aristocracy; the Schlegel sisters, who represent the enlightened bourgeois class; and the Basts who are the lower middle-class. Forster is clear, however, that the novel is 'not concerned with the very poor.' The film asks the question 'Who will inherit England?' and answers it through the ownership of the house, Howards End, as it passes from person to person. At the start of the film, the younger sister, Helen Schlegel ( Helena Bonham Carter ), rashly becomes engaged to the younger Wilcox son, Paul. The next day both realise their mistake and break it off but Helen has sent a letter to her family announcing their relationship. Her Aunt Juley ( Prunella Scales ) arrives at Howards End and so makes the Wilcox family aware of an engagement that the two young people would rather have kept from them.

Later, when the Wilcox family takes a house near to the Schlegels in London, the older sister, Margaret Schlegel ( Emma Thompson ), feels compelled to visit because of the social embarrassment of the previous year. She befriends the mother, Ruth Wilcox ( Vanessa Redgrave ). Ruth is descended from English yeoman stock and it is through her family that the Wilcoxes own Howards End, a house which she dearly loves and which is the symbol of rural England and English tradition. Over the course of a few months, the two women become close and Ruth sees in Margaret a kindred spirit. Hearing that the Schlegels are to be turned out of their apartment when their lease ends, and knowing she is soon to die due to an illness that she has kept from her family, Ruth bequeaths Howards End to Margaret. This causes great consternation for the Wilcoxes, who refuse to believe that Ruth was in her "right mind" or intended her home to go to a relative stranger. The Wilcoxes burn the piece of paper that Ruth's bequest is written on, and decide to keep her will secret.

Because he knows that he has prevented the Schlegels from finding a home in Howards End, Henry Wilcox ( Anthony Hopkins ) offers to help Margaret find a new place to live. As a result, the two become close and Henry proposes. Margaret accepts. A parallel plotline involves the younger sister, Helen. Whilst the Schlegels are still living in the London flat, and about the same time as the Wilcoxes arrive in the neighbourhood, Helen attends a lecture about Beethoven and accidentally leaves the hall with an umbrella belonging to the clerk Leonard Bast ( Samuel West ). He follows her and calls at the house to retrieve it. Later, his lover Jacky finds the Schlegels' card in Leonard's possessions and is convinced he is having an affair. In a fit of jealousy she calls on the Schlegels but leaves after an embarrassing scene due partly to the sisters having forgotten Leonard after the umbrella incident. Leonard returns to the house to make an apology and during tea the sisters find that he has an ambition to better himself through the kind of literature and sentiments that they share. They begin a project to improve his lot, and take advice from Henry Wilcox about Leonard's financial situation.

Henry advises that Leonard should leave his post at the insurance company because it is heading for a crash. Leonard does so but the advice is premature and he finds himself in a worse position and eventually unemployed. The two plotlines come together at the marriage party of Evie Wilcox (daughter of Henry and Ruth). Helen has found the Basts starving and brings them to the party. Jacky Bast becomes drunk and she comes to the attention of Margaret, who approaches her with Henry to find out who she is. Jacky recognises Henry and it becomes clear that some years previously he had an affair with her and that she had effectively to prostitute herself in order to survive. Humiliated, Henry breaks off the engagement but that evening he and Margaret are reconciled and she forgives his sexual impropriety and infidelity. She insists that Helen take the Basts away and refuses them help, in accordance with Henry's wishes and sense of pride. Because of this, the Schlegel sisters drift apart. Helen has spent time with Leonard and we see an idyllic moment spent on a boat in a romantic scene. After this, Helen drifts away from Margaret and stays in very distant contact with her, much to Margaret's puzzlement.

After several months, Helen comes back for her possessions, intending to move to Germany for good. She asks if she can keep them at Howards End and stay there for the night, in order to avoid contact with everyone. However, it is revealed that she is pregnant with Leonard's child. He is not aware of this. When Henry Wilcox finds out, he insists that she cannot stay in the house, and that the man responsible must be found out and punished for dishonouring her. Margaret and Henry argue bitterly about the different standards of sexual propriety applied to men and women and Margaret says she is leaving Henry. Margaret, Leonard and the oldest Wilcox son Charles ( James Wilby ) all make their way separately to Howards End and the final tragedy unfolds. Charles inadvertently kills Leonard, and is later taken away by the police. Ultimately, Ruth Wilcox's wish is fulfilled: Helen is eventually reconciled with Margaret who now owns Howards End, where Helen will raise her son as its heir.

In both film and novel, the final ownership of Howards End is a symbol of new class relations in England: the wealth of the new industrialists (the Wilcoxes) married to the politically reforming vision of liberalism (the Schlegels) that will benefit the children of the lower classes (the Basts). Filming locations Part of the movie was filmed at the Baltic Exchange , 30 St. Mary Axe , London . Soon after filming there it was bombed by the IRA , razed, and another building erected on its site. Other scenes were shot in the quadrangle of the Founder's Building at Royal Holloway, University of London , in Surrey . [1] The "Howards End" house in the countryside is Peppard Cottage in Rotherfield Peppard , Oxfordshire , and the Wilcox's house is nearby [1] . The film received massive critical acclaim.

On June 5, 2005, Roger Ebert included it on his list of "Great Movies." [2] Cast Adrian Ross Magenty - Tibby Schlegel Joseph Bennett - Paul Wilcox Samuel West : definition of Samuel West and synonyms of Samuel West (English) 10 External links Early life and education West is the son of actors Prunella Scales and Timothy West , and the grandson of the late actor Lockwood West . He was educated at Alleyn's School , a co-educational independent school in Dulwich , London, and at Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford , where he studied English Literature. Career West works as an actor in a variety of dramatic media including theatre, film, television and radio. He has also made a career as a director on stage and radio. [2] West has narrated many television documentaries, including the acclaimed series The Nazis: A Warning from History . He often appears as reciter with orchestras (see below) and performed at the Last Night of the Proms in 2002.

Stage West made his London stage debut in February 1989 at the Orange Tree Theatre , playing Michael in Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles , of which critic John Thaxter wrote: "He invests the role with a warmth and validity that silences sniggers that could so easily greet a lesser performance of this difficult role, and he lets us share the tumbling emotions of a juvenile torn between romantic first love and filial duty." (Richmond & Twickenham Times, 10 February 1989). Since then, West has appeared frequently on stage and spent two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company playing the title roles in Richard II and Hamlet , both directed by Steven Pimlott . In 2002, West made his stage directorial debut with The Lady's Not for Burning at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester . He was appointed artistic director of Sheffield Theatres - succeeding Michael Grandage - in 2005. [3] During his time as artistic director West revived the controversial The Romans in Britain and also directed As You Like It as part of the RSC's Complete Works Festival.

West left Sheffield when the theatre closed for refurbishment in 2007 and made his West End directorial debut with the first major revival of Dealer's Choice following its transferral to the Trafalgar Studios . He also continued his acting career: in 2007 he appeared alongside Toby Stephens and Dervla Kirwan in Betrayal at the Donmar Warehouse , in November 2008 he played Harry in the Donmar revival of T. S. Eliot 's The Family Reunion [4] and in 2009 he starred as Jeffrey Skilling in ENRON by Lucy Prebble . His 2008 production of Waste at the Almeida Theatre was chosen by The Times as one of its "Productions of the Decade". Film In 1991, West played the lower-middle-class clerk Leonard Bast in the Merchant Ivory film adaptation of E. M. Forster 's novel Howards End (released 1992) opposite Emma Thompson , Helena Bonham Carter and Anthony Hopkins . For this role, he was nominated for best supporting actor at the 1993 BAFTA Film Awards.

Two years later he again appeared with Thompson in the film Carrington . His film career has continued with roles in a number of well known films, such as Zeffirelli 's Jane Eyre , Notting Hill , Iris and Van Helsing . In 2004, he appeared in the year's highest rated mini-series on German television, "Die Nibelungen", which was released in the USA in 2006 as Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King . Television He is a familiar face on television appearing in many long-running series: Midsomer Murders , Waking the Dead and Poirot as well as one-off dramas. He played Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies a BBC production about the four British spies, starring alongside Toby Stephens ( Philby ), Tom Hollander ( Burgess ) and Rupert Penry-Jones ( Maclean ). In 2006 he took the lead role in a BBC production of Random Quest adapted from the short story by John Wyndham and the next year played Ted Heath in Margaret Thatcher - The Long Walk to Finchley , also for the BBC.

In 2010 he played Peter Scabius in the televised adaptation of William Boyd 's novel Any Human Heart , while in 2011 he starred as Zak Gist in the ITV series Eternal Law . Radio West is regularly heard on radio as a reader or reciter and has performed in many radio dramas, including Otherkin by Laura Wade , Len Deighton 's Bomber , Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and The Homecoming as Lenny to Harold Pinter 's Max. In 2011 he made his radio directing debut with a production of Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton on BBC Radio 3 . Personal life While at university, West was a member of the Socialist Workers Party and later briefly the Socialist Alliance ; West has been a left-wing activist for many years; he was a critic of Tony Blair 's New Labour government. As a choral singer, West participated in the May 2006 Choir of London tour to Jerusalem and the West Bank, where he also gave poetry readings as part of the concert programme. In April 2007, he again joined the Choir of London in their tour of Palestine , directing The Magic Flute .

West became the patron of Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus in February 2008, having been the narrator for a concert of theirs in February 2002. [5] He is also a patron of London children's charity Scene & Heard , [6] Eastside Educational Trust and Mousetrap Theatre projects. Between 2007 and 2011, he lived with playwright Laura Wade . [7] West has appeared alongside his actor parents on several occasions; with his mother Prunella Scales in Howards End and Stiff Upper Lips , and with his father Timothy West on stage in A Number , Henry IV Part I and Part II . In two films - Iris (2001) and the 1996 television film Over Here , Sam and his father have played the same character at different ages. In 2002 all three family members performed in Stravinsky 's The Soldiers Tale at the St Magnus Festival on Orkney and in 2006 they gave a rehearsed reading of the Harold Pinter play Family Voices as part of the Sheffield Theatres Pinter season.

He is a trustee of the National Campaign for the Arts and a member of the council of the British Actors' Union, Equity .

Filmography Close the Coalhouse Door (2012), Northern Stage Audiobooks and reciting West has recorded over fifty audiobooks , among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well , Coriolanus , Henry V , The Merchant of Venice , A Midsummer Night's Dream , Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II , the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer , Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone , At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March), four books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray , Birdsong , The Girl at the Lion d'Or and Human Traces ), four by Michael Ridpath (Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley (An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture), two by Robert Goddard (Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions) and several compilations of poetry (Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats , Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley , Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic

 Age and A Shropshire Lad ).

Also Faust , Bomber , Doctor Who : The Vengeance of Morbius, Empire of the Sun , Brighton Rock , Fair Stood the Wind for France , Fluke , Great Speeches in History, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Lady Windermere's Fan , Peter Pan , The Alchemist , The Day of the Triffids , The Hairy Hands, The Lives of Christopher Chant, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous , The Queen's Man , The Solitaire Mystery , The Swimming Pool Library , The Two Destinies, The Velveteen Rabbit , The Way I Found Her, The Way to Dusty Death, The Woodlanders , Under the Net and Wuthering Heights . As a reciter West has worked with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra , Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C..

Works include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Soldier's Tale , Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin, Beethoven's Egmont , Schoenburg's Ode To Napoleon, Strauss' Enoch Arden , Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals , Bernstein's Kaddish , Walton's Façade and Henry V, Night Mail and The Way to the Sea by Britten and Auden and the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodall’s Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal Albert Hall . In 2007 West made his New York recital debut in the first performance of Little Red Violin by Anne Dudley and Steven Isserlis . He performed the suite version of Henry V at the 2002 Last Night of the Proms . He has also appeared with the Nash Ensemble, the Raphael Ensemble, Ensemble 360° and the Lindsay, Dante and Endellion Quartets at the Wigmore Hall , London. Recordings include Eugene Onegin with Sinfonia 21 and Edward Downes, Salad Days and Walton's Henry V with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin .

In November 2010, West performed a new English translation of Grieg's complete incidental music to Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt with Southampton Philharmonic Choir at Southampton Guildhall. [8] In June 2012, West recorded an English narration of The Book about Moomin, Mymble and Little My by Tove Jansson for an interactive audiobook developed by Spinfy and published by Sort of Books. Awards and nominations London's Wild West London's Wild West Email Elegant, witty—and not a bad juggler FROM CERTAIN ANGLES, SAM WEST seems the very model of a Modern British Actor. He has the sensitive eyes of a young Laurence Olivier and parents who rank with England’s theater royalty (more on them in a moment). As one of the most successful members of the “Britpack”—the group of rising young film stars from the U.K.—West’s résumé exudes literate class. Moviegoers who remember him as Leonard Bast in 1992’s Howards End will see a similar refinement in his two latest films, both in U.S. theaters this month.

In Persuasion, based on Jane Austen’s final novel, West plays the caddish Mr. Elliot. Carrington, with Emma Thompson, tells a quirky tale of artists in World War I-era England. But ask West, 29, about his ultimate ambitions and he speaks not of Merchant Ivory, but of Bert and Ernie. “I watch Sesame Street as often as I can,” the Oxford-educated actor says. “I’d love to sing with Bert and Ernie.” He’s not kidding. Two Sesame Street characters in West’s apartment in London—a Grover puppet and a photo of the Count—offer proof. West’s pastimes include juggling, unicycle riding and collecting comic books. In his adult mode, he enjoys vegetarian cooking with his girlfriend, actress Julie Cox, 22, whom he met while filming the Danielle Steel miniseries Zoya last April, and poker games with pals. “I’m deeply hyperactive,” he says. But when acting, he’s single-minded. “There are a lot of good actors his age, and it’s a struggle to be noticed—but Sam’s doing it,” says Carrington director Christopher Hampton. “He assumes the character completely.” The craft is in his genes.

His father, Timothy West, 61, is one of Britain’s most accomplished stage and TV actors; his mother, Prunella Scales, 63, though best known as John Cleese’s wifely nemesis, Sybil, in the BBC comedy import Fawlty Towers, is also a grande dame of the stage. Scales recalls bringing Sam and his only sibling, Joe (now 26 and a graduate student), to see their father play the title role in King Lear. Even at age 6, she says, Sam had taste. “Somebody asked him, ‘And what’s your favorite play? Cinderella?’ ” she recalls. ” ‘No,’ he said, ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost, I think.’ ” West was exposed to low comedy during visits to the set of Fawlty Towers in 1977. Cleese, who played acid-tongued hotelier Basil Fawlty, West recalls, asked him to come up with a few nasty remarks for Basil to hurl. “He was prepared to pay me in apples,” West says. “But I never came up with any usable insults.” By age 13, West was showing a fine sense of stagecraft.

He had a small part in a BBC series called Nanny, and Scales remembers Sam asking the director if he could hold a book instead of a comic, thinking it was more in character. “I was thrilled,” she says. “I thought, ‘A true actor’s instinct.’ ” After graduating from Oxford in 1988, West won a part in the movie Reunion, playing a German aristocrat opposite Jason Robards. Two-and-a-half years in theater and TV roles led to Howards End. During that shoot, West found that costars Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson were both quite the clowns. “I’m silly, but they’re sillier,” West says. While filming Carrington last year in Yorkshire, Thompson impressed him even more. To deal with raw nerves before their steamy sex scenes, he says, she burst into his dressing room and whipped open her robe to show her naked self, shouting, “Right! This is it!” It was, notes West, “the perfect way to break the ice.” GREGORY CERIO

Question: Who is the mother of Samuel West, the actor whose film roles include Leonard Bast in Howard's End?
Answer: Prunella Scales